The BCS is a poorly contrived concept to match the top 2 teams in College Football at the end of the Bowl Season to play for the National Championship. Mostly due to Ohio State's inability to beat Michigan during the mid 90s when they were the superior team and lost late in the season thus moving them down the polls.

Due to Disney/ABC/ESPNs continual pimping of conferences on their networks, superior conferences such as the SEC get the shaft while analysts such as Mark May cream their pants at the thought of watching USC beat Fresno St by 30. Better yet watch Lou Holtz jerk off under the broadcast desk every time Notre Dame beats Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard and every other academy they can find. What was VMI to busy?

"Wow, did you see the BCS give the SEC get the shaft again? I didn't think we could top screwing an undefeated Auburn team in 2004, but we came close with screwing Florida in 2006. Oh my Gawd -- is that Pete Carroll??" Mark May waking up from wet dream with a soiled blanket

The single worst acronym in athletics. Highly corrupt system which, to the dismay of every college football fan in the United States, is the determining system for the postseason. Computer formulas, coaches polls, and school history are all factors that come into play. This might shock many people with a limited background in American sports but D-1 (top-tier) college football has NO PLAYOFF system. School presidents and athletic directors are happy-------hence, no need to rock the boat. American college gridiron may be the only sport's league in the world where a team's tradition and base of support actually impacts where they are positioned in the playoffs. For EPL fans: that's like saying Man U, Liverpool, and Newcastle get best playoff positioning because they are the most followed and their merch sales are tops. 7 divisions (and Notre Dame) make up the BCS. 5 divisions are excluded and have no chance for a title even before the season begins.

Notre Dame is part of the BCS system. They finished with a dismal record in 2007, but have a good fan base. Expect them to finish with a BCS bid if they finish with 8 or 9 wins in 2008. Notre Dame plays a schedule filled with service academies and some of the most mediocre teams in the US (UNC, Duke, Stanford). They get a $7.5 million payout from playing in one of those games-----this effectively perpetuates the same system and brings them back for subsequent games in latter years.

A system which determines who's better in NCAA football by having a computer make the choice in a way which makes no logical sense to any real human. It is also a system that will screw over really good teams like Oregon, TCU, and LSU.

Hey, why didn't your team move up in BCS ranking?
Because the jerks at the BCS think teams that lose in this season but were good in the past deserve tops spots more than us.